Supplementary Estimates.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 188, 28 August 1888, Page 3

Supplementary Estimates.

The following supplementary estimates have been brought down. The total amount under the consolidated fund is £197,944. Among the various items are the following:—Ministers’secretaries (shorthand), £100; grant-in aid to Dunedin Hospital Trustees for new operating room, £400; allowance to W. R. J. Deighton, Wairoa, £52; grant for relief of Norsewood settlers by b.ush fires, £3OO ; rates on native lands, advance to Hawke’s Bay County Council, £250 ; relief road works village and homestead settlements since Ist of April, £6000; printing transactions of New Zealand Institute, £300; expenses of West Coast Commission, £lOO ; pension to T. Cars, late Chief Surveyor in Canterbury, £100; Melbourne Exhibition, additional, £1000; starpp duty paid in London on £400,000 debentures, £500; payment to contractors for San Francisco mail service co make good contributions not paid by United States Government, £2544; repairs to Cook Strait cable, £5000; Collector of Customs, Wellington (additional), £5O; suppression of smuggling and illicit distillation, £1000; protection of salmon and introduction of sal (non ova, £800; new boilers and repairs to s.s. Hinemoa, school buildings, £30,000; completion of South Canterbury rabbit-proof fence, £5430; destruction of scabby sheep (additional), £1000; special representation of mining exhibits at Melbourne and Paris, each, £1000; gold railway passes far members of the Legislature, £220 | Hteirration of general post office, Wellington, £18,000; refund of Customs duty on Volunteer uniforms ordered from England prior to the adoption of the new tariff, £150; to give effect to dation of Public Petitions Corpxnittee on claim of Wellington Naval Artillery Volunteers, pension to Recipients of New Zealand Cross, £lBO ; compensation to officers and men on reduction of defence force, £4242; ditto police, £4236 ; expenses op account of French escapees, Qasparfai and Oury, £125; fees to members of Waste Lands Boards, including £5OO rates on crown lands for' 1888-89, £19,000; supplementary estimates under public works fund, £43,000 ; balance of subsidies, £13,500 ; purchase of land for re-sale in small blocks, £lO,OOO ; rates on native lands, £10,000; Woodville-Palmerston (additional), £3OOO (and £30,000 to he authorised) ; unauthorised expenditure for the year Under consolidated fund, £76,192 ; ditto under public works fund, £80,407,